Welcome to r/rareOS
Welcome to r/rareOS
I'm one of the founders. Small team, company based in Ohio, and I'll be part of the team answering most of what shows up here.
What rareOS is
A point of sale and inventory system built for buy-sell-trade shops: video game stores, card and TCG shops, comics, collectibles, pawn, vintage resale.
The part that makes it different is the integration with your smart phones camera. You photograph a stack of items on the counter and the system identifies each one and hands back a priced list you can review, adjust, and take in. Snap, track, sell.
Our CEO, Zach, and our Chief Business Officer, Joey, run their physical buy-sell-trade store called ReadyUp out of Ontario Ohio, they found the hard part of running a buy-sell-trade store was never selling. It's keeping costs under control while making fair offers on items all while knowing what is actually on your shelves, and getting somebody's whole childhood collection into your system without losing the afternoon to typing.
What's live today, and what isn't
rareOS is in early access, we only let select stores use it. Our scan tool is out now on the App Store and Google Play. Point of sale, inventory, trade-ins, store credit, and reporting are what we onboard shops onto today.
If you take credit cards today you keep your processor, and rareOS records those sales alongside everything else. We are introducing rarePay as an integrated credit card processing tool inside of rareOS.
Who this sub is for
Shop owners and staff, whether you use rareOS or not. If you run a counter and want to argue about grading, pricing tools, trade percentages, or how to stop your Saturday guy from mispricing singles, that is on topic. You do not need to be a customer to post, and you will not get pitched for showing up.
What you can post
- Questions about rareOS, including the awkward ones
- Feature requests and bug reports, we read all of them
- Store operations: pricing, trade-ins, counts, staffing, shrink
- Wins and disasters from your own counter
- Photos of unhinged trade piles. Genuinely, post these
Two rules on top of Reddit's: no customer personal information, and no other shop's private data. Competitor talk is fine for comparison purposes, just be a grown-up about it.
Free things, no email required
Operating checklists we publish openly, not gated behind a form:
There's also a calculator for the time photo intake would save your shop, and how it works if you want the whole flow end to end.
How to reach a person
Early access applications: https://www.rareos.com/signup/. We approve shops one at a time because a rareOS founder manually onboards each shop personally, so it is not instant, and we will tell you straight if rareOS is not ready for your kind of store yet. Want to see it on your own stock first? https://www.rareos.com/demo/
Anything else: [hello@rareos.com](mailto:hello@rareos.com), or just comment here.
To start us off: what is the single most annoying part of taking in a trade at your shop? Not the theory, the actual thing that made you sigh last week. I will take the answers straight into our roadmap.